Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Summary: Edgar Rice Burroughs's epic story of love and adventure is well-adapted here for the young reader, leaving intact much of the author's original prose and the book's narrative structure. With the strength of a beast and the grace of an athlete, Tarzan of the Apes has risen to become the king of the animals. His life changes, when he spies a young woman, Jane Porter, among a crew of stranded...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quiet Vision Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BURSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Contents: Africa, its geography, people and products -- The geography of Africa -- The people -- The languages -- The products -- Political divisions of Africa -- Independent Africa -- Partially independent Africa -- British protectorates in South Africa -- Mandated territories -- Belgian Africa -- French Africa -- Portuguese Africa -- Spanish Africa -- Italian Africa -- Africa, its place in modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007